Meanwhile, 500 million LinkedIn users were also affected by a hack on Tuesday; about 2/3 of the social platform user base. The scrapped information of users was listed for sale on hacking forums. On Thursday, a LinkedIn spokesperson confirmed to Business Insider that data was scraped from the platform.
“Members trust LinkedIn with their data, and we take action to protect that trust. We have investigated an alleged set of LinkedIn data that has been posted for sale and have determined that it is actually an aggregation of data from a number of websites and companies.” reads LinkedIn’s statement.
“It does include publicly viewable member profile data that appears to have been scraped from LinkedIn. This was not a LinkedIn data breach, and no private member account data from LinkedIn was included in what we’ve been able to review.” It continued.
In conclusion, the hacker has added the data for sale for a 4 digit sum or in Bitcoin.
